March 22, 2017

i read Holly Madison's Down the Rabbit Hole in a few days. while i was supposed to be reading Orwell's Homage to Catalonia - for our book club which is due to get together next week. well, both are biographical, right? but i have started the latter and will finish it obviously. then, i have the next bio in queue; Branson. DtRH was quite ok, but got a little bit 'american' towards the end - i get that she had to fight her way to where she got, but so does everyone else. the tone just got a bit superficial and fake-ish.still, overall i liked it ok.

some things are moving forward. the postman introduced himself the other day, his name is Jason. an older man, who says he likes when its not too warm out. i never got to know the postman/woman in istanbul cos they didnt usually come to the door, but was on superficial terms with the postwoman who last worked our street. point is, getting friendly with people around here reminds me of istanbul, i like it.

omg i found the switch for our bathroom fan. its annoyed the fuck out of me, ive even had showers in candle light in order not to have to listen to it. but, there was a swicth, outside the bathroom, above the door. certainly not easy to reach, have to jump or stand on a chair. the challenge will be to remember to turn it on at times, still, though. the bathroom would surely get moldy very fast if not.

article on Brixton's recent evolution (Guardian). im surprised to read that the average rent for a 1 bed house is 1744£ in this area?! maybe the keyword is house? cos our 2 bed flat is less than that. and this a pretty nice, modern place. i guess its the flat vs house thing then. but the article is also referring to statistics that paint Brixton mostly white. am i living in another Brixton? cos this is preeeetty black and 50 other shades. if we wanted predominantly white or less diverse i guess we would've moved to Clapham or somewhere else. but it definitely depends where in Brixton u are, too - 100 meters can make a difference. on the street by the shops you see jamaicans chilling, middle easterners holding shop... then u walk into the hipstery Pop Brixton and everyone is white... on the bus nearly everyone is black again. at the tube station its super mixed, which i like.

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who is who

Arttu - my ex and best friend. musician and IT-entrepreneur.Avner & Elmor - friends of partly israeli origin in London.Carina - a swedish friend of mine whom i met in Istanbul.Carilyn - a puerto rican friend my age whom i met in Istanbul at an Internations event.cousin B - cousin with a B in her name. we've always been close and we are the same age.dad - lives in Austria with his new family of 5 kids. works as an embassy caretaker.doctor - my husband (since August 2015). he is my age. turkish. likes art movies. we met through hospitalityclub.org in early 2010.F (former him) - a nice handsome guy I dated for 1.5yrs in 07-08. we met at work.Hanna - a swedish friend, we met when working for the translation agency in Istanbul.K - a fellow blogger. an easy going male, works in the music business.Kev - online/rl friend, a photographer in canada. we have love for hockey in common, thats how we met online in 2002.Marianne (former mnoo) - a finnish photographer living in London. we met online in 2004 or so.Melisa - a turkish finnish documentary director, a friend of mine in IstanbulMiriam - a smart german feminist girl living in [changes often]. a few yrs my junior. we met online in 2004 perhaps.miss R - ex coworker from internet provider customer service, a few yrs younger than me, now works in the field of logistics.mom- lives 3 hours away from Helsinki. retired because of severe illness. died sept 2010.muuli - photographer. we met online in 2003, when he was only 17 or something.Otto - Arttu's brother, architect/IT entrepreneurSebastian - ex-hairdresser, now prison guard, MMA practitionerSenni - a finnish girl (tourist guide) in Istanbul that became my friendBUNILLA - my PC since Oct 2016. (Chillblast Fusion Tranquillity 2 Silent PC)16GB RAM, Intel i7-6700K 4 cores, W10 on 256Gb SSD, 4+2TB hard driveSUPERPUPU- my PC in 08-16. 8GB RAM, 1000GB HD, Intel Q66004 cores, NVIDIA 8600GT Silent. TURKPUPU - my beloved laptop. 4GB RAM, 320GB, Intel Pentium Dual Core T4400, 17,3". Tiitta - a friend/model in my photos. cat owner :)Volkan and Ilcin - good turkish friends whom i met through the internet, helped me settle in istanbul.